Machine for turning and pressing gloves



June 9, 1942.

L. BROWN$TEIN MACHINEIOR TURNING AND PRERSSING GLOVES Filed Dec. 17, 1940 5 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR [01115 Brownstem A ORNEY June 9, 1942. 1 ow s m 2,286,059

MACHINE FOR TURNING AND PRERSSING GLOVES Filed Dec. 17, 1940 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR 01113 Brownstem June 9, 1942. L, BROWNSTEIN MACHINE FOR TURNING AND PRERSSING GLOVES Filed Dec. 17, 1940 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 3 x INVENTOR Louis Bro wnstem A ORNEY June 9 1942. BROWNSTEIN MACHINE FOR TURNI NG AND PRERSSING GLOVES Fil'ed Dec. 17, 1940 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 \m mx .0 9 R11. Y 05 E m m w o WWW/Mm June 9, 1942. L. BROWNSTEIN' MACHINE FOR TURNING AND PRERSSING GLOVES 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Dec. 17, 1940 INVENTOR .Louzs Brawnstem ATTORNEY Patented June 9, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MACHINE FOR TURNING AND PRESSING GLOVES Louis Brownsteln, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Isidor Gerber, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ing and pressing machines of the type disclosed in my copending application for patent for combined glove turning and pressing machines, Serial No. 267,553, filed April 13, 1939, to which referlimits and varying also in the materials from which they are made.

It will be understood that the turned glove is mounted on a form of a pressing mechanism from which it is later stripped and pressed. Since only part of the pressing mechanism is shown herein, reference is hereby made to my prior Patent No. 2,199,778, dated May 7, 1940 for a complete disclosure of the heating, stripping and pressing instrumentalities.

The present invention contemplates the provi-* sion of dependable and efficient, but much simplified mechanism to grip the wrist end of the glove and to carry said end past the previously tucked glove finger tips during the glove turning, operation. This is rendered possible by rotat-' ing the heating forms of the pressing mechanism in non-simultaneous timed relation to and in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the turning forms on which the gloves are first mounted in inside-out position.

The invention further contemplates the provision of mechanism for initiating the turning of the glove fingers at a separate and distinct tucking station other than the turning station thereby aiding in the simplification of the turning mecha-' nism and without affecting the stripping and pressing operations.

The invention further contemplates the provision of means for accomplishing the tucking of the finger tips and thumb of a glove at a tucking station while another glove is being mounted on a form at the mounting station, a third glove is being turned at the turning station,

a fourth glove is being heated on a heating form,v and a fifth glove is being pressed after being heated and dismounted from the heating form.

The invention further contemplates the provision of means for insuring the proper pressing of the glove thumb by guiding the thumb into its proper position relatively to the palm of the glove and also additionally urging the thumb to enter the pressing rolls in an extended position, thereby avoiding crushing or folding of the thumb by said rolls.

The various objects of the invention will be clear from the description which follows and from the drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved machine.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the machine taken through the horizontal turning form at the turning station, and showing the turning grippers and their operating and controlling mechanism.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the tucking mechanism for initiating the turning of the glove.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a turning form and a heating form in the aligned positions thereof at the turning station, ready for the transfer of the glove from one form to the other, and showing the turning grippers about to begin the turning operation.

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the same showing the glove during the transfer thereof from the turning form to the heating form and showing the turning operation about to be completed.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary vertical section of the gripper showing how it opens to release the glove at the end of the turning operation.

Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the machine.

Fig. 9 is a horizontal section of the grippercarrying slide.

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary side elevation and partial section of the thumb controlling mechanism.

Fig. 11 is a front elevation of a modified form of the means for operating the turning grippers.

In the practical embodiment of the invention which I have shown by way of example, the heating forms III are of the electrically heated type, each provided with an electrically operated heating element and with four fingers adapted to receive the fingers of the turned glove. The forms ID are mounted on and preferably radially of the shaft I I, which is intermittently operated by a suitable Geneva movement later to be described in the direction of the right hand arrow of Fig. 1 or in a clockwise direction to align one of the heating forms I!) end to end with one of the turning forms I2 during the period when both forms are at rest. Current is supplied to the heating element of the heating form I!) by suitable connections to the commutator l3 near the end of the shaft It. Means are also provided for operat- I l I (Fig. 8) is oscillated through the cam I I2 and cam follower 3, the member II5 engaging and moving the form pin IM which is operatively connected to the rods It. The glove is thus partly stripped from the form into the bight of the stripping and pressing rollers H6, III which complete the stripping and also press the glove.

The rolls H6, II! are mutilated rolls and grip the finger tips of the partly stripped glove, all as has been fully set forth in my said prior Patent No. 2,199,778. In that patent, however, are disclosed thumb moving members to press the thumb against the palm of the glove during the stripping operation and just before the pressing operation. I have found that such members create a slight friction upon the thumb sufficient frequently to retard the thumb of the glove while the rest of the glove moves into the stripping and pressing rollers. This sometimes causes the thumb to buckle or fold back undesirably and causes it to crease back and shorten.

In order to insure the proper pressing of the glove thumb, I have provided the guide plates I0 and 70' (Figs. 1, 8 and 10), one on each side of the heating form, each of said plates being supported on the frame of the machine by a suitable bracket II. The upper end of the plate is flared outwardly so that the glove thumb I2 regardless of whether the glove is a right hand or a left hand glove, is guided by the plate back against the palm. The plate III is preferably arcuate between its upper and lower edges and is provided with an extension 69 at its lower edge. Said extension is arranged quite close to the palm of the glove and at the position assumed by the thumb at the stripping station.

At said station, as is best shown in Figs. 1 and 10, I provide means for insuring that the thumb moves between the pressing rollers at the same time that the fingers and palm of the glove move between said rollers, and at substantially the same speed. That is, I insure against retardation'of the thumb during the first part of the stripping and pressing operation. For this purpose, I provide the flexible beaters I3 in the form of a plurality of blades of leather, felt or the like material radiating from the shaft 74 and of sufficient width to engage the glove thumb as it emerges from the lower extension 59 of the plate HI during the glove stripping operation. The heaters are given a rapid rotation in the proper direction to keep the thumb stretched relatively to the palm by stroking the thumb rapidly without exerting any material lateral pressure thereon. Said beaters keep on acting on the thumb to maintain it flat and extended until the thumb is engaged by the stripping rollers. In other words, the rate of progress of the thumb into the roller and therethrough is the same as the rate of progress of the remainder of the glove into and through the rollers, the beaters or strokers insuring the movement of the thumb accordin It will be understood that a beater is arranged on each side of the form III in the glove stripping position of said form and cooperates with a plate 10 to insure proper pressing of the thumb. To drive the beater shaft 74, a suitable pulley as 15 is arranged on said shaft and is driven by the belt I6 engaging the doubled groove pulley TI on the shaft I20. The other belt I8 from the second groove of the pulley 11 operates the opposite beater pulley I9 and the opposite beater mounted coax-ially therewith. The beater blade and the glove mounted on the form II] being flexible, said form moves between the heaters on the intermittent rotation of the shaft II. If desired, however, the beater shafts may be separated to permit the form to move therebetween, the shafts being moved toward each other when the thumb is beaten or stroked.

Each of the various turning forms I2 extends radially from the common shaft I5 therefor. Said forms I2 are intermittently rotated by the Geneva wheel and pin mechanism I6, I! (Figs. 1, 2 and 8) on the shafts I5 and I8 respectively, which rotate the turning. forms in succession through the mounting station, the tucking station and the turning station in a counerclockwise direction or in the direction of the left arrow of Fig. 1. At the mounting station, the form I2 is vertical and in ,its'highest position. At the tucking station wherein turning of the glove is initiated by the tucking of the glove finger tips and thumb into the fingers and thumb of the form, said form is removed from the mounting station and is in its lowermost position. At the turning station, the form I2 has been moved in a counterclockwise direction from the tucking station into horizontal position and into alignment with a corresponding heating form II] from which the glove has previously been stripped.

The shaft I8 is rotated through the sprocket wheel I24 thereon and the chain I25 by the sprocket wheel I26 on the shaft I44. The bevel gear I28 on saidshaft I44 meshes with the bevel gear I29 (Fig. 8) on the drive shaft I30 of the reduction gear mechanism I33. The motor I3I drives the driven shaft of the reduction gear device I33 by means of thechain I32. Consequently, on the rotation of the motor, the shafts I8, I44 and I30 are continuously rotated.

To drive the Geneva shaft II of the pressing mechanism, the bevel gear I 9 on the shaft I8 engages the bevel gear 20 on the shaft I29 to rotate said shaft. At the right end of said shaft I 20 (Fig. 8) is the bevel gear I2I engaging the bevel gear I22 on the shaft II8 which carries the Geneva pin II9 (Fig. 1) arranged to engage the Geneva wheel I23 on the shaft -II and to rotate said shaft II intermittently. When the shaft I8 rotates, the Geneva part I! is rotated and actuates he slotted Geneva wheel I6 inermittently to rotate the shaft I5 and to carry each of the turning forms I2 successively into the' various horizontal and vertical rest positions as shown in Fig. l. The timing of the shafts II and I5 is such that the turning forms and heating forms are operated to move at different times and about parallel spaced axes but with overlapping rest periods 50 that during part of the time when the turning forms I2 are at rest, the heating forms I!) are also at rest. Consequently, one of the turning forms will be in coaxial and coplanar alignment with and adjacent to one of the heating forms at the turning station during part of each rest period (Fig. 1) of the forms. Overlapping of the rest periods of the respective turning and heating forms I2 and II] is attained by arranging the Geneva pin I! carried by the shaft I8 in a difierent angular position from the Geneva pin IIS on the shaft IIB. That is, the Geneva pin II9 engages the Geneva wheel I23 and causes rotation of the shaft I I and the forms I carried thereby before the Geneva pin I1 engages the wheel I5 and causes rotation of the shaft I5 in the opposite direction.

The timing above described, the consequent non-simultaneous rest periods of the respective forms, and the rotation of the respective turning and heating forms in opposite directions permits the simplification of the gripper mechanism which forms part of the turning mechanism, as will be later explained in detail. It need merely be said at this time that the gripper mechanism is carried by the slide I31 reciprocating in the dovetail grooves I35 (Figs. 3, 9 and 10) oi the frame I36 and is reciprocated by means of the link I34 pivoted at one end to the endless chain 138 and at its other end pivoted to the slide. Said chain I39 is operated continuously by sprocket wheels on the shafts I39 and I40 (Fig. 1). The shaft I39 carries a sprocket wheel I4I driven by the chain I42 which passes about the sprocket wheel I43 on the shaft I44 (Fig. 1) The slide I31 is reciprocated so as to become arranged adjacent one of the forms I2 at the turning station while said form is at rest and as the other aligned form I0 is moved out of the turning station. Similarly, the slide I31 becomes arranged adjacent one of the stationary forms I0 at the turning station when the corresponding form I2 is moved out of said turning station and toward the mounting station thereof.

As best seen in Figs, 4 to 6, each of the turning forms I2 consists of an outer or index-finger tube 2 I, a second outer or small-finger tube 22 slightly shorter than the tube 2|, and a pair of intermediate finger tubes 23 and 24 extending somewhat beyond the corresponding ends of the tubes 2! and 22. The intermediate finger tubes are supported by the plate, 25 which is in turn connected by the outer members 26 to the enlarged thumb plate 21, said thumb plate carrying the hub of the form. By means of the hub, the form is mounted substantially radially on the shaft I5. Each of the outer members 26 of the form is provided with a suitable edge slot or groove 28 therein for the reception at the proper time of a glove gripper 29 or 50.

It will be understood that the finger tubes 2| to 24 may be removably secured to the plate 25 in order that they may be interchanged with tubes differing in diameter or length in order to adapt the form for the reception or the mounting thereon of gloves of different materials or differing somewhat in size or materials or both. Preferably, each of the tubular fingers of the form is bevelled inwardly at its outer extremity to reduce said extremity to a minimum thickness and thereby make it comparatively easy for the finger tip of the glove to be folded back or turned inside of the tube.

Associated with the finger tubes and comprising part of each of the forms I2 is a pair of identical and opposed springy thumb-holding members 39 and 3I of peculiar construction. One of said members as 39 is intended to enter into the thumb of a right hand glove andis arranged on one side of the index-finger tube 2I and the other as 3I is intended to enter the thumb of a left hand glove and is arranged on the other side of the index-finger tube.

Each of said thumb-holding members comprises the base 32, which is suitably secured to and projects substantially perpendicularly from the plate 21 and'wh'ich terminates in a reduced portion 33 interposed between the pair of similar spring plates 34 and 35 arranged in face to face relation. Said plates are separated by the part 33 at their inner ends and adjacent their outer ends are in spring-pressed contact at the inwardly bent portions 35 thereof, the extreme ends 31 however being bent away from each other or bevelled to provide a triangular space for the easy entrance therebetween of a suitable tucker blade. Inwardly of the contacting portions 35 are the outwardly convex and spaced portions 38 providing a suitable space 39 between the spring plates to receive the inwardly tucked end part of the glove thumb at the proper time. The plates 34 and 35 being resilient, they are readily spread apart by a tucker blade pressed between them past the ends 31 thereof. As shown in Fig. 4, the tucker blade 40 tucks the tip of the glove thumb between the plates at the turning station and at the same time slightly spreads the plates apart. After the tucker blade is withdrawn, said plates automatically close upon the end of the thumb and grip and hold said end properly in place by their spring action during the time that the turning of the remainder of the glove is being performed.

It will be understood that the tucker blade may tuck a sufficient portion of the thumb end in between the thumb-holding plates 34, 35 to reach the space 39, in which case the parts 36 of the plates engage and grip a substantial area of the partly turned thumb of the glove just beyond the tip of the thumb. The tucker blades 49 are mounted on the cross head M for reciprocation therewith, said cross head sliding in the fixed guides 42 (Fig. 1) and being reciprocated by the connecting rod 43 which is pivoted at its upper end as at 44 to the crank 45 on the shaft I8. It will be seen that rotation of the shaft reciprocates the cross head at the proper time to cause the tucker blades 40 to tuck the end part 46 of the glove thumb between the plates 34, 35 of one of the form thumbs regardless of Whether the glove mounted on the forms is a right hand glove or a left hand glove. At the same time, the tucker rods 41 also mounted on the cross head M and of varying length to compensate for the different lengths of the finger tubes 2I to 24, tuck the ends 48 of the respective glove fingers into the finger tubes as shown in Fig. 4.

It will be understood that the glove 49 has been mounted on the form I2 manually when said form is at rest at the mounting station as has been hereinbefore explained, and that additional gloves continue to be and are successively mounted on the succeeding forms as they successively reach the mounting station, and that the finger tips and thumb tip of the gloves on the forms are successively tucked by the tucker rods when the form reaches and is at rest at the tucking station. It will also be understood that as the tucking of the glove is accomplished at the tucking station, the wrist portion of the glove creeps up on or is advanced somewhat toward the free end of the form, and the slots or grooves 28 in the outer members 26 of the form are exposed for the extrance into said slots of the grippers 29 and 59 when the form reaches the turning station (Fig. 5).

The means provided herein for turning the body of the glove at the turning statiomfor also removing it from the form I2, and for mounting it on the form I0 while said forms are at rest and in alignment will now be described. Said means comprises the pair of traveling grippers 29 and 50, one of which as 29 is arranged to operate during part, of' its movement in the slot 28 of one member 26 at the top of the form and the other of which similarly arranged to operate simultaneously in the corresponding slot of the opposite member 25 at the bottom of the form. The upper gripper 29' is fixed to the shaft which is rotatable in suitable bearings carried by the slide I31 and on the end of which is mounted the cam follower 52 terminating in the roller 53 (Figs. 1, 3 and 8). Said roller rides on the fixed cam 54 which is secured to the frame I36 of the machine. Said cam has a central straight horizontal portion 55, and depressed end portions 56, 5'! which are also horizontal, and which are connected to the straight portion 55 by the inclined surface 58, 59 respectively.

The lower gripper 50 is, similar to the gripper 29,'fixed to a shaft I50 loosely mounted in suitable bearings in the slide I31 and carrying the arm 6| which in turn carries the cam roller 62 riding on the upper edge surface of the fixed cam 63. In that form'shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the cam 63 is substantially identical with the cam 54 and is so arranged as to rotate the shaft 60 in the direction opposite to the rotation of the shaft 5| by the fixed cam 54. For this purpose, the cam 63 is shifted to the left of and below the cam 54 and the arm 5| extends in the direction opposite to that of the arm 52. The grippers 29 and '50 are thereby swung by the cams controlling" them in opposite directions to press the wrist portion of a glove between the gripper and the slide on which the gripper is mounted and thereby to firmly grip the gloves and to carry it in the direction in which the slide I31 is moved (Fig. 6). V

In other words, when the roller 53 is on the edge 55, the gripper 29 has gripped the glove. At this time also the roller 62 is on the high part of the cam 63 and the gripper 50 has been rotated in a clockwise direction as viewed in Figs. 5 and 6 also to grip the glove. As the slide I31 is now operated by the chain I38 further toward the right, the grippers are maintained closed upon the glove wrist by the rollers which rest on the upper part of the respective cams 54 and 63. As the slide passes the right hand end of the horizontal form I2, the grippers carry the wrist part of the glove on to the form III, as shown in Fig. 6, thereby turning the glove right-sideout and simultaneously mounting it on the form I0, though the finger tips are still maintained by friction within the finger tubes of the form I2 and the thumb tip is also maintained by friction between the plates 34, 35. However, when the slide I31 has advanced toward the right sufficiently on the form III to turn the glove on to said form and to begin the removal of the turned finger tips from the finger tubes of the form I2, the Geneva pin II becomes operative to engage the slot of the Geneva wheel I6 and to turn said wheel in the direction of the left hand arrow of Fig. 1, that is, in a counterclockwise direction to raise the form I2 from which the glove has just been stripped, into the mounting position where another glove in inside-out-position may be mounted on the now bare form.

As the movement of the form I2 from the turning position back toward the initial mounting position is begun, no movement of the form III has yet occurred, said form remaining at rest until the grippers have completed their work and have started their return stroke to the left. In other words, the rollers 53 and 52 continue moving toward the right on their cams until the inclined portions of said cams are, reached, at which time the rollers drop by gravity along the inclined portions as 59 thereby rotating the respective shafts of the grippers 29 and 5|] in the proper directions to lower the gripper 29 and to raise the gripper 50 thereby freeing the glove which has just been pulled taut on to the form I0. As the grippers are freed of the glove, they are carried still further toward the right in their open positions (Fig. 7), the cam rollers riding on the depressed portions of the fixed cams. The return stroke of the slide I31 now begins, whereupon the grippers are first closed when the rollers controlling them ride up on the high part of the cam but without any glove parts being gripped thereby. When the slide I3'I has passed the left end of the form III on which the turned glove has been mounted, then the Geneva pin I I9 engages the slot of the Geneva wheel I23 and rotates the Geneva wheel in a clockwise direction, thereby. raising the heating form I0 and carrying the glove away from the mounting position.

It will be understood that the forms III are preferably continuously heated so that immediately after the glove hasbeen mounted thereon, heating of the glove is commenced. It will also be understood. that the grippers pull the glove tightly on to the form with the form fingers entering within the corresponding fingers of the glove and stretching the glove to its proper shape in a manner which is well understood. Heating of the glove on the heating form is continued for three-quarters of a revolution of the shaft II. During the third quarter of the revolution (beginning at a point removed from the turning station), the glove thumb I2, which may have been hanging loosely after the turning operation, is guided by the proper plate I0 against the glove palm and the heaters I3 become effective to keep the thumb elongated to its proper dimensions and against possible folding back, shortening or crushing. It will further be understood that in accordance with my prior patent hereinbefore referred to, when the heated and stretched glove reaches the stripping position, which is the lowermost position of the form III as viewed in Fig. 1, the stripping rollers H6, H1 become effective to strip the glove from the form and to press it, said rollers being continuously rotated by means of the chain I48 engaging the sprocket wheel I49 on the shaft I20 and also engaging suitable sprocket wheels on the respective shafts for said stripping rollers.

It will further be understood that as the slide moves toward the left past the left end of that heating form III which is at rest at the turning station, the next turning form I2 on which a glove has been tucked at the tucking station reaches the turning station and is at rest at the turning station. The slide I31 continues to move toward the left past the stationary turning form I2 until the cam rollers reach the lowermost left ends of the cams 54 and 63 at which times, the rollers drop to open the grippers 29 and 50 into the position shown in Fig. 5, said grippers being arranged in the edge slots 26 to the left of the Wrist portion of the glove mounted on the form I2 and having tucked finger and thumb tips. The turning and stripping operations are repeated and continue to be repeated so long as gloves are mounted on the turning forms at the mounting station. v

As shown in Fig. 11, one of the fixed cams as 63 for controlling the operation of the grippers may be omitted if desired. In this form of the invention, the bifurcated cam follower BI is mounted on the shaft one arm thereof carrying the cam roller 82 resting on the control edge of the cam 54 and the other arm -83 thereof being connected to an end of the link 84. The other end of said link is pivoted to the end of the crank 85 on the shaft 60 for the gripper 50. Since the crank 85 and the arm 83 are equal in length and extend in opposite directions from their respective gripper shafts, said shafts are coupled together by the link 84 for simultaneous and equal movement in opposite directions as determined by the cam 54. The grippers 29 and 50 are consequently caused to open simultaneously and to close simultaneously without the necessity for the use of more than a single cam.

It will be understood that by substituting thumb plates of different sizes or finger tubes of difi-erent sizes, or both, on the turning'forms, gloves of different sizes or materials may be operated.

upon by the machine and that by the adjustment of the size of the forms, the required amount of force necessary to turn the glove Without undue stress upon the material may be provided.

It will further be seen that by alternatingto some extent the movement of the turning forms and the movement of the heating forms, it becomes possible to use a simplified form of gripping mechanism and also it becomes possible somewhat to speed up the operation of the machine as well as to provide a separate tucking station which also enables the machine to work at a higher speed. It will also be seen that I have provided mechanism adapted to guide and extend the glove thumb and thereby to more accurately and surely control the difiicult operation of pressing the freely hanging thumb of the glove. It will consequently be seen that I have provided a simplified machine well adapted to meet the requirements of practical use.

While I have shown and described certain specific embodiments of the invention, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, but intend to claim the invention as broadly as may be permitted by the state of the prior art and the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a machine of the character described, a movable turning form having edge slots therein, means for moving the form intermittently to and through a mounting station, a tucking station, and a turning station, the form being accessible to an operator at the mounting station to mount a glove thereon in inside-out position, reciprocating means at the tucking station to tuck in the finger tips and thumb tip of the glove. a pair of opposed reciprocating grippers at the turning station adapted to enter the edge slots of said form and thereby to enter the wrist portion of the glove mounted thereon on the reciprocation of the grippers, fixed cam means to close the grippers on the wrist portion of the glove and thereby to move said wrist portion during the reciprocation of the grippers to turn the glove, said grippers releasing the glove at the end of the turning operation, a heating form aligned with the turning form at the turning station and receiving the turned glove mounted thereon by the grippers, and means for operating the forms in removing the respective turning and heating;

forms from the turning station to the next station at different times thereby to permit the grippers on the return stroke thereof to move past the heating form and into the edge slots of the succeeding turning form.

2. In a machine of the character described, a

1 plurality of turning forms, means for moving said forms successively into a mounting station, a

tucking station, and a turning station, a plurality of heating forms, means for moving said heating forms successively into the turning station and into a stripping station, one of the turning forms and one of the heating forms being simultaneously at rest in the turning station during a predetermined period, the turning form being at rest before the beginning of said period and the heating form being at rest after the end of said period, and a pair of reciprocating grippers movable in a glove turning direction from one end of the turning form to the remote end of the heating form, and movable in the opposite direction during the movement of the turning form out of the turning station and being movable across the next succeeding turning form during the movement' of the heating .form out of the turning station.

3. In a machine of the character described, a turning form, means for moving said form from a tucking station to aturning station, means at the tucking station for tucking the fingers and .thumb. of a glove mounted on said form, means at the turning station for turning the glove including a pair of reciprocating grippers, and means for controlling the opening and closing movement of said grippers, a heating form movable into and out of the turning station while the turning form is at rest, and means for moving the turning form out of the turning station while the heating form is at rest, said means for moving the forms being also operative to maintain the forms at rest simultaneously for a predetermined period.

4. In a machine of'the character described, a plurality of turning forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms through a mounting station, a tucking station, and a turning station, a plurality of heating forms in spaced relation to the turning forms, means for rotating the heating forms intermittently through the turning station and into a stripping station and in a direction opposite the direction of rotation of the turning forms, said means rotating the heating forms during part of a rest period of the turning forms and said means being inoperative and thereby maintaining the heating forms at rest during part of the time that the turning forms are being moved, means at the tucking station to inwardly tuck the fingers and thumb of a glove and means at the stripping station to strip a turned glove from the heating form, said tucking means and stripping means being arranged in corresponding positions relatively to the respective turning and heating forms.

5. In a machine of the character described, a tucking and turning mechanism including a plurality of turning forms, means for rotating said forms in one direction through a mounting station, a tucking station, and a turning station, means at the tucking station to tuck the fingers and thumb of a glove to initiate the turning of the glove, means at the turning station to grip the wrist end of the glove and to move said wrist end relatively to and past the tucked finger tips and thumb 9.! the glove, and a heating and pressing mechanism comprising a plurality of heating forms, means for rotating said heating forms in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the turning forms and through the turning station and into a stripping station corresponding in position to the tucking station of the tucking and turning mechanism, means at the stripping station tostrip the glove from the heating forms and to press the glove, said turning means removing the glove from the turning form at the turning station and mounting said glove on a heating form, both sets of said forms being at rest during overlapping rest periods and one set of said forms being moved by said form moving means when the other set of forms are at rest.

6. In a machine of the character described, a tucking and turning mechanism comprising a plurality of forms, means for moving said forms in one direction intermittently through a tucking station and into a turning station, and means at the tucking station to tuck in the fingers and thumb of a glove, and a heating and pressing mechanism comprising. a plurality of forms, means for moving said forms intermittently through the turning station and into a stripping station in the opposite direction from said aforementioned one direction, means at the stripping station to strip and press a glove while another glove is being tucked by the tucking means at the tucking station, and means including reciprocating grippers movable from the tucking and turning mechanism into the heating and stripping mechanism to turn a tucked glove and to mount said glove on a form of the heating and pressing mechanism during the tucking of a glove at the tucking station and the stripping of a glove at the stripping station.

7. In a machine of the character described, a tucking and turning mechanism comprising a plurality of turning forms, means for moving said forms intermittently through a tucking station and into a turning station, and means at the tucking station to tuck in the fingers and thumb of a glove, and a heating and pressing mechanism comprising a plurality of heating forms,

means for moving said heating forms intermittently through the turning station and into a stripping station, means at the stripping station to strip and press a glove while another glove is being tucked by the tucking means at the tucking station, and means including grippers movable from the tucking and turning mechanism into the heating and stripping mechanism to turn a tucked glove and to mount said glove on a heating form.

8. In a machine of the character described, a plurality of turning forms, means for intermittently moving said forms in one direction, means for tucking inwardly the fingers and thumb of a glove mounted on a turning form while said turning form is at rest, means-for simultaneously turning the glove on another of th forms, a plurality of heating forms, said turning means mounting the turned glove on one of said heating forms, means for stripping the glove from another of said heating forms while said tucking means and said turning means are in operation, and means for intermittently moving said heating forms in the opposite direction from said aforementioned one direction.

9. In a machine of the character described, a plurality of heating forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms about a common axis into a turning station and a stripping station,

a plurality of turning forms having fingers and thumbs, means for intermittently rotating the turning forms about a common axis into a mounting station, a tucking station, and a turning station, all of said stations being rest stations, the time periods of rest of the rest stations of said heating forms overlapping the time periods of rest of the rest stations of the turning forms but beginning and ending at different times, means independent of the turning forms at the tucking station for tucking the fingers and thumb of a glove mounted on the turning form into the fingers and thumb of said form, a pair of reciprocating grippers movable across a heating form and a turning form, means for closing the grippers on the wrist of the glove during the movement of the grippers in one direction, said grippers remaining closed until the glove is turned thereby and then opening, means at and in advance of the stripping station for engaging the base of the glove thumb and guiding said thumb against the palm of the glove during the advance of the heating forms, means for maintaining the thumb extended at the stripping station and means to strip the glove from the heating forms.

10. In a machine of the character described, means at one station for tucking the fingers and the thumb of a glove, means at another station for turning the tucked glove, means at a third station for pressing the glove, means arranged in advance of said third station for engaging the base of the glove thumb to guide the thumb against the palm of the glove, and means for maintaining the glove thumb extended prior to and during the pressing operation.

11. In a machine of the character described, means for intermittently advancing and heating a glove, fixed means for flattening the glove thumb against the glove palm during the advance of the glove, flexible continuously rotating means for repeatedly strokingthe thumb to maintain it extended and against folding, creasing and shortening, and means for pressing the glove.

12. In a machine of the character described, means for stripping a glove-from, a form including a pair of cooperating rollers first engaging the finger tips of the glove and then engaging the thumb of the glove, and means for maintaining the thumb of the glove extended prior to its entrance between the rollers, comprising a flexible blade, and means for continuously and relatively rapidly rotating said blade about an axis at right angles tothe direction of the stripping movement of the; glove to wipe the thumb longitudinally and to extend the thumb in the stripping direction.

13. In a machine of the character described, a fixed plate, the leading edge of said plate being arranged in the path of movement of the base of the free thumb of a glove and the other end part of said plate being arranged adjacent the path of movement of the .palm of the glove thereby to guide the, thumb into a position wherein it is pressed flat againstthe palm, and a revoluble beater tostroke the glovev thumb in the direction of the further advance of the glove.

14. In a machine of the character described, means for advancing a glove having a free thumb, a fixed plate in the path of, the base of the glove, said plate being. b'ent'to guide the thumb against. the palm, a revoluble heater to stroke the glove in a. given direction, and. glove Stripping and pressing means to advance the glove in said given direction.

15. In a machine of the character described, a plurality of turning forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms in a given direction, each of said forms having hollow finger tubes and a pair of cooperating spring thumb plates, each of the outermost finger tubes having an edge groove therein, tucking means at a tucking station including rods adapted to enter the finger tubes, and a flattened blade to enter between the thumb plates, means for reciprocating the rods and the blade simultaneously while the forms are at rest, means at a turning station other than the tucking station to turn the glove, said means including a pair of spaced pivoted grippers one above the other and one adapted to enter one edge slot in the form and the other adapted to enter an opposite edge slot in the form, fixed means for controlling the operation of the grippers to open and close said grippers at predetermined points in the movement thereof, means to reciprocate the grippers over a stroke greater than the length of the form and in a direction at substantially right angles to the direction of movement of the tucking rods and blade and thereby to turn the glove and to mount the glove on a heating form, a heating form, and means for intermittently rotating the heating form in a direction opposite to the rotation of the turning forms.

16. In a machine of the character described, a plurality of turning forms, a plurality of heating forms in spaced relation to the turning forms, means for intermittently rotating the turning forms and the heating forms in opposite directions and through overlapping rest periods, means reciprocating in a given direction for tucking a glove on a turning form at one station, means reciprocating in the direction perpendicular to the given direction for gripping the open end of a glove on a difierent turning form at a difierent station while the tucking means is in operation, said gripping means turning the glove and mounting said glove on a heating form, means in the path of the glove thumb on the heating form for stroking and flattening the thumb against the palm to maintain said glove thumb elongated, and means for stripping the glove from the heating form during the thumb stroking operation and for pressing the glove.

17. In a machine of the character described, a turning form, means reciprocating in a given direction to tuck the fingers and thumb of a glove mounted on the turning form, glove gripping means spaced from the tucking means, and means to reciprocate the gripping means in a direction at right angles to the direction of reciprocation of the tucking means, and fixed means to control the operation of the gripping means.

18. In a machine of the character described, a plurality of turning forms, a plurality of heating forms, means for intermittently rotating the turning forms and the heating forms in opposite directions and through overlapping rest periods, means for tucking a glove on a turning form at one station, means for gripping a glove on another turning form at a different station while the tucking means is in operation, and for turning the glove and mounting said glove on a heating form, and means for simultaneously stripping the glove from another heating form and pressing the glove.

LOUIS BROWNSTEIN. 

